How To Effectively Manage Multiple Blogs

As someone who writes for multiple blogs on a daily basis, I am always looking for ways to become more productive with my blogging and get more done in less time. Running a blog is a very similar to being in a marriage. You need to work hard to make it all work. If you think running one blog is difficult, wait till you see how much effort it takes to run multiple blogs. If you add in the amount of time that you will have to spend promoting your blogs, preparing content, brainstorming, catching conferences, and reading books, you are going to go over 24 hours of work each day.  So it’s essential for anyone who’s planning to run multiple blogs to plan things ahead of time to keep the momentum going on all of them without slaving yourself 24/7.

Recently, I came across an article on Pro Blogger about how using color-coding on a calendar has helped a blogger become more productive and effective in managing multiple blogs. The approach was certainly interesting, but it’s not something I would recommend to “multi-bloggers.” It’s nice to be able to look at a calendar to figure out where you are with each blog, but there are better tools out there. Calendars may have been effective in the 90s but not these days.

I use To Do List widget on my desktop to manage my daily posting and find out what I need to do on a daily basis to keep the momentum going on my blog. To Do List is a Yahoo! Widgets Engine plugin that makes it so easy to manage daily tasks and become more productive. It uses Yahoo! or Outlook to help you manage your daily tasks.  Since it uses color-coding as well, it’s very similar to the approach suggested in the above mentioned article, but it’s easier to manage.

While we are at it, you can just use Outlook to manage your blogs more effectively without forgetting about them. So as you can see you don’t need a paper calendar to go about managing multiple blogs more effectively.

All in all, you should go with the method that works for you the best. Some folks still prefer tracking things on paper calendars, and there is nothing wrong with that. But at the same time, using the latest technologies out there may give you better results. Running multiple blogs can be challenging for most of us, so I’d take any help I can get.